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Language:French
Date:1794-1796
Contributor:Trudeau, Jean-Baptiste, 1748-1827
Subject:Childbirth | Clothing and dress | Dance | Expeditions | Marriage customs and rites | Social life and customs | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Journals | Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: "Description abrègée du Haut-Missouri adressé: a Monsieur don Zénon Trudeau," an account of a journey up the Missouri River, with descriptions of the life and manners of the Indian tribes, prepared for Don Zenon Trudeau, Lieutenant Governor of the Country East of the Illinois (n.d., [after 1795]). Extracts from journals, June 7, 1794-June 1796 (part printed from copy in Department of State Archives, Washington), 190 pages. Approximately 200 pages of letters. Materials contain descriptions of the culture of the Plains Indians (Cheyenne, Arikara, Mandan, Pawnee, Gros Ventres, Sioux, Poncas), dress, customs, marriage, birth; calumet dance, sun dance, buffalo dance; warfare. Printed (in English translation), Trudeau (1914) and (1912) and Abel (1921). Original in possession of the Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Journal among the Arikara Indians, and other papers, 1794-1796 (Mss.Film.1036)
Language:Salish, Straits | English
Date:1974
Contributor:Bowman, Elizabeth | Charles, Al | Demers, Richard A.
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Fishing | Folklore | Food | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories | Conversations | Speeches | Elicitation sessions
Extent:20 sound tape reels (21 hr., 29 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings, recorded in Whatcom County, Washington, June - August 1974, with consultant Al Charles. Includes stories relating to Lummi history, descriptions of social customs, descriptions of museum artifacts, descriptions of how to prepare various kinds of traditional foods, and elicited sentences. Majority of material given in Lummi and later reviewed and translated. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Lummi recordings (Mss.Rec.105)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1935
Contributor:Nelson, Roland | Nicholas, Louis | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Thibodeau, Joe
Subject:Dance | Hunting | Maine--History | Marriage customs and rites | Music | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Extent:38 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of 18 recordings of songs for various occasions, including wedding songs, hunting songs, social dances, "Micmac" songs, lullabies, and hymns. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)